Sonic MyDVD Studio DeLuxe 5.0


Home media buffs will find what they need in this versatile and stable suite for authoring and editing DVDs and CDs, but pros may want more.

The good: Stable and reliable; motion backgrounds and buttons; handles most mastering chores; plays DVD movies; creates disc labels.

The bad: Fixed menu buttons; will not mix NTSC and PAL video; doesn't back up to hard drives; relies on Window Media Player for CD and MP3 identification.


Sonic MyDVD Studio Deluxe 5.0 contains all the tools most users will need for basic movie authoring and editing, burning audio CDs, backing up a system (to CD or DVD), and playing DVD movies. It's also the friendliest, most intuitive DVD/CD suite on the market; unlike many competing packages, we found it to be virtually bug-free. However, although MyDVD 5.0 can muscle through everyday tasks, power users will find its limitations--you can't mix NTSC and PAL video, freely place menu buttons and text, or back up to a hard drive--frustrating. More ambitious artists should check out Nero 6.0 Ultra instead.

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